Ford Anglia

And is it fixed? I kept getting an ERROR message with loads of computer gobbledygook every time I tried to post. Several times my message was lost. Given that I'm a two fingers at best typist, it was a bit annoying to say the least.

  Sounds good to me. Many's the time I've felt like "removing" signs myself. No "handshake" then? Or rolled up trouserlegs? You ARE boring.[:P]

[quote user="Sunday Driver"] Teatime.  Rode down to Cerizay to post a couple of birthday cards.  Opened top box outside post office - letters still at home on kitchen table.  Rode back home for letters, then back to post office. [:P][/quote] Ah.......so it's NOT just me does stuff like that then? Good.

This happened to us recently with an oldish Xantia. Wife swore me down it was the battery as it was sooooooooo sluggish and sometimes refused to start/trun over at all. Then it would be OK. Grammar school physics says a battery CAN'T behave like this, so I suspected the starter. Sure enough, a check found the starter commutator badly burnt from a previous diesel leak.[Www] One new starter, and no more problems.

[quote user="Georgina"] [quote user="Ford Anglia"] Yes, I knew, there was a thread about it earlier. And the problem with it would be? [/quote]   There was a thread earlier, sorry, I never saw it.  But it is useful to know, so have you anything useful to add?[:@]   [/quote] Sorry Georgina, your emoticon told me that you had a problem with it, and I wondered what it could be? Just shows the inherent problems of trying to have a conversation with someone in writing[:D]

[quote user="Benjamin"]Bugbear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stop encouraging PdF. These sort of posters just looooove confrontational posting. And as for waffling, whilst I haven't read all your posts PdF I don't think you've included one provable statistic in all of your rantings. [/quote] Sorry Benjamin, while I was typing MY reply, you posted that. Now I've wound him/her up again.

[quote user="Paysages de France"] I'm not particularly happy about the fact that there are radars on the roads but I  know that it is the only way to save lives.[/quote] Sorry Paysages, but your above quote makes it obvious that you either haven't READ my post, or haven't understood it. Speed cameras are a MEANS to save SOME lives in SOME situations. They are certainly NOT and never will be the "only" way. The very FACT, (as admitted by ACPO) that in some locations, accident rates have gone UP shows that speed cameras aren't all they are cracked up to be. I thoroughly agree with Bugbear on this one: how can a speed camera catch poor drivers UNLESS they are speeding? Answers on a postcard to "Transport 2000"..... And while more and more cameras ARE replacing more and more traffic cops, the carnage will go on.           [quote user="Paysages de France"]  Individually, you have only the power to waffle on and on, on internet forums, which is why I (as well as promoting the landscape protection  cause here) belong to an association agreed to act in justice and which achieves positive  results all over France.   [/quote] Somewhat smug, Paysages. Just what IS this mysterious association? Does it have a handshake?[:D]

[quote user="mattjazz"]Ford Anglia, Whats the route from Chartres to Orleans that misses out the N154? It can get a bit heavy with HGV.[/quote] Leave the Chartres ring road  at the junction BEFORE the N154, look for a white sign pointing to "Voves". The slip road joins the D29, turn right at the "T" junction at the end of the slip road towards Voves. Continue to Voves. At Voves, look for signs to "Janville". It's the D10. Follow this road to the N154 where it crosses it at Allaines. Here you can either join the A10, or do as I do and continue down the N154 joining the A10 at Artenay. Allaines to Artenay seems to have very few HGVs . Once I'd done the Voves route, I use it most times now. It has villages but VERY little traffic, so 90kph is easy away from the villages.

[quote user="Paysages de France"]In France,  a lot of cynical people are claiming that the government has introduced radar devices just to earn more money for the state's coffers. The fact that thousands of lives and tens of thousands of horrific injuries are being spared each year means nothing to them. [/quote] Perhaps they, too, have seen that much of the death reduction is due to safer cars, crumple zones, better tyres, better brakes, seatbelts, seatbelt pre-tensioners, airbags, side airbags, built-in roll cages, safer windscreens, better designed junctions, better road surfaces, better signs, lower speed limits, education of drivers and pedestrians etc etc..............but do ANY of those get a mention by those campaigning FOR speed cameras? Nope. There's dishonesty everywhere, it's endemic. Just like the DfT claiming in the UK that speed cameras were CHEAPER than flashing speed signs. They "accidentally forgot" to figure in the cost of the actual camera, and quoted a price for just the housing? Dishonest? You tell me.[;-)] 

Yes, I knew, there was a thread about it earlier. And the problem with it would be?

[quote user="Organiste Titulaire"]Being in Clitheroe, I was planning to use the M6. The author of the second posting in this topic probably presumed that I was nearer to Yorkshire than Lancashire!! NS [/quote] He probably assumed you WISHED you were[:P]

Our family has used Ryanair many times with no problems so far. Keep it up Michael[:P]

[quote user="Clarkkent"] Oh dear. The scientific evidence is clear and unambiguous - global warming is here. We had better start taking note of this uncomfortable truth. The television programme was a piece of entertainment not science. It was not even good journalism. It operated on the principle that that there will always be someone resisting orthodoxy. So they sought anti-orthodox individuals and gave them airtime. The scientifically-illiterate public assume that if there are alternative views, those views must be of equal importance to the orthodox views and that therefore there is a debate. They are renegade views - they are of questionable validity. There is no debate. This has happened before. Remember MMR? [/quote] Right. So why were the self-same scientists you now insist are correct, screaming that the next ice age was coming, during the seventies, when carbon dioxide emissions were almost as high as today? And why do records show an increase in global temperature hundreds of years ago when carbon dioxide emissions were very low? Sorry, it's not as cut and dried as the doom-mongerers are saying. And the cycles of the sun? Do THEY have NOTHING to do with it?

[quote user="Andyphilpott"] I know what you mean about other Brit cars! Also funny to have French drivers gesticulating madly at you as they think you are in the wrong lane, only for you to go sailing through. Andy [/quote] Yes, that regularly happens to me.

'Ello, 'ello, 'ello, you're in the right place then matey[:D] Seriously, you can either plough through LOADS of stuff on here, with new threads on the same, and different things, occurring daily, use the search for specific queries that might have been discussed already, or ask a specific question. All will get good results. DO be careful about technical questions though: you will get conflicting answers in some cases, so a search, reference to printed literature etc are the way forward. Be prepared to wait for replies on some queries, the "experts" aren't always on here. And DO continue to post in good English if you don't want your threads sidetracked[;-)] Our property is in the Limousin, specifically in the SW corner of 87, the Haute Vienne, almost in 24, Dordogne. Welcome to the forum, btw.  

Chipie: I'd still do Rouen, Evreux, Dreux, Chartres, Orleans. At that time of night the roads are empty. I even know a good route across from Chartres to Orleans that misses out the N154 now, and although a bit twistier, can be quicker during the day when there are plenty of HGV about.

Is he absolutely certain they were Adders? the reason that I ask is that Adders are quite timid, and usually clear off if they sense anyone coming.

Good going. And when you've watched that one, get hold of "The Great Global Warming Swindle" and compare the evidence.

I'm convinced some folk are still cheating. Ten correct answers in 60-odd seconds?[8-)] Come on. I read french reasonably fluently, but can't ever answer in less than around 90 seconds.

[quote user="Pancake"]Does anyone know if the cinama in La Dorat,87 has a website so i can see whats coming on.?[/quote] Do you have difficulty typing, or just with French? It's LE Dorat. No "e".

[quote user="powerdesal"][quote user="Ford Anglia"] Dunno really.....................I mean I could OF done wivart....................like...........................innit.   [/quote] You forgot   "yer know" [/quote] so I did. Worradivvy.

Dunno really.....................I mean I could OF done wivart....................like...........................innit.  

(Ford Anglia sits back and opens popcorn, while awaiting the arrival of Ron in the Aveyron, Dick Smith etc etc).................[:D]

"He was banned from driving for a year, fined £900 with £600 costs." He did well then. Over 100mph on a MOTORWAY, let alone a bypass, often results in an automatic ban. I've seen one count of speeding, one of no insurance, and one of careless driving, produce a similar fine and ban. Never mind his 9 of each. I'd say he got off lightly. And I'll say again, if ACPO weren't preferring forward facing scameras, bikers wouldn't get away with it like they do, mostly, now.

I find it hard to engage in banter on here................for fear of upsetting some folk, who seem only too ready for a scrap, with the resultant rudeness.